Apple cutter and corer.



B. FULLMBR & A. H. POWELL.

APPLE CUTTER AND GORER.

' .Patented wmm To all whom it may concern:

2 and ALFRED H. Pownnr., citizens of the ms srnrns rnrunr OFFICE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

APPLE CUTTER AND ooim'n.

Patented Nov'. 15,1910.

Application filed January 31, 1910. Serial No. 541,193.

Be itkriown that we, BENJAMIN FULLMEI:

United States, residing at Alpine City, in the county of Utah, State of Utah, have invented certain new and useful Improve mentsjin Apple Cutters and Corers, of which the following is a description, reference be- -ing"hiid to the accompanying drawings,

forminga part hereof.

-Onr1 nvent1on relates to an improved cutting and corin device for use in dividing an apple or ot ier fruit having a central core or seedto be removed into parts and separating the core or seed from the remaining portions by one single cutting operation, our improved device comprising a single unitary implement for accomplishing the endabove stated; and the object of our inventiorijis to provide a simple and strong and effective implement for the purpose stated, and one which may be readily manu-' factured and which'may be kept clean by a minimum of eifort on the part of the user.

We have illustrated an embodiment of our invention in the accompanying drawing and described the same in the-following specification and particularly pointed out the .features wherein our invention consists in the concluding claim. In the drawmg; Figure 1 IS a view shmw ing our device in side elevation; Fig. 2 is a View showing the handle of our device andthe means whereby the same is attached, to the blades in section; Fig. 3 is a view showing the handle in side elevation; Figs. 4 and 5 are'views showing the two cutting or slicing blades of our device in elevation; Figs. 6 and 7 are views showing the annular coring knife in side elevation and in plan; Figs. 8 and 9 are views showing a ferrule forming a part of our device in plan and side elevation, and; Fig. 10 is a view showirig a section upon a horizontal plane. indicated by the line AB of Fig. 2.

In the drawing, 4 and 5 are two slicing blades arranged at right angles to one another in the implement when properly as- Lsembled, these-blades being triangular in form and arranged with their apices upward and the lower transverse cutting portions 8 of which are sharpened and are preferably slightly convex as shown. The middle portion of the blank from which these blades are formed -is cut away so as to leave an open space within the. periphery of I the blades and above the lower transverse cutting portions thereof in the device when in its finished condition. The blades are provided each with a recess 9 at its upper end which several recesses register 'with one another when the bladesarein lace and thereby form a single recess within which a threaded nut 7 lies when the parts are assembled, which nut is enga ed by the threaded lower end of a bolt Gwliereby blades and handle are secured together.

handle 1, the same being provided with slots 10 adapted to receive the upper ends of the blades 4, 5. The handle 1 is rabbeted at 11 to form a projection adapted to enter the upper end of the ferrule 2, and 'has slots per ends of the blades, all

12 to receive the u as shown in the rawing.

and said blade provided with an upwardly opening recess 14 in its lowertransverse cutting edge 8, and the blade 4 is provided with a correspondinglylocated downwardly opening recess 15,; from which it the blade 4, this being ermittcd by the slot 13, and the nut 7 inc osed within the recesses 9 of both blades, .the recesses 14, 15 securing a mutually interlockin action of the lower transverse portions 80 the blades and the whole resultlng in an extremely secure and rigid blade structure. The ferrule may then be place'd'upon the upper ends of the blades and the handle 1 secured the said portions 8 are provided with downwardly opening recesses 16 and the annular knife 3 with upwardly opening recesses 17, which recesses permit the annular coring knife and'the slicing blades to interlock as will be understood. and thereby secure a rigid structure and one not likely to become loose or displaced in use. The joints bethe p 2 is a ferrule uponthe lower end of the" The blade 5 is out to'p'rovidea slot at 13 will be understood that the blade 5 in assembhng the implement can-be moved over in position by means of the bolt Gas will be in order to secure a more rigid construction,

tween the knife 3 and blades 52,4), will also be brazed,and the joints between the blades 4 and 5 will also preferably be brazed to thereby more surely hold the several parts together.

It will be seen that in addition to an extremely rigid blade structure of the implement resulting from the features of eonstruction above enumerated. the open structure resulting from the middle portion of l 5 open construction of the slicing blades as the blades bein' cut away provides an implement which may very readily be kept clean. while the means provided for securing the blades to the handle. is simple in form and at the same time results in a strong'construction and one which permits the implement to be readily assembled and easilv disassembled if desired.

\Vhile We have shown'our invention as embodied in a structure having two blades intersecting at right angles, the distinguislr ing feature of our device so far as the arrangement of the blades is concerned is that the slitting blades are arranged in planes which radiate from a common axis, our invention being not necessarily limited to the definite number of blades, that is two, present in the device in which our invention -is shown as embodied.

In use the device is placed against an apple with the point of intersection of the blades 4, 5 over the depression formed at the stem, or at the opposite end, and the implement forced through the apple. This action will divide the whole body of the apple, including the core port-ion. into four equal parts in the form of our device illustrated, and at the same time the annular coring knife 3 will cut the core free from the body portion of the apple, the. result being that the outer or body portion is cut into equal parts each free from portions of the core and the central or core portion is by the same act out free from the body portion into a corresponding number of parts. \Vhen the device has reached its lowest position the four parts of the body portion are easily separable from the core, and, indeed, will ordisurrounds the lower end of the core, securely enough to permitthe device and the core to be removed to a distance, whereupon a slightblow of the device as againsta re eeptacle provided to recelve the cores w1ll in r the core free fromthe coring knife and I permit it to fall away from the knife, the

above explained facilitating such'action.

Having thus disclosed our invention and explained the mode of operation thereof, we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

An apple cutter and corer. comprising a plurality of slicing blades of triangular form arranged with their apices upward and each formed with its central portion cut away to thereby provide a blade having an open and unobstructed central space above a lower transverse cutting portion, and said blades being also arranged in planes which intersect one another, said blades being each provided with a recess adjacent its upper end so located that the several recesses register and form a single recess when the blades are assembled; a nut within the recess formed as aforesaid: a handle; a bolt associated with said handle and the-lower end of which is in engagement with said nut to thereby secure said blades and handle together; and an annular coring knife secured to the lower transverse cutting portions of said blades and centrally arranged with reference thereto and the cutting edge of which coring knife is in. substantially the same plane as the cutting edges of the transverse cutting portions of said slicing blades.

This specification signed and witnessed this 10" day of January A. D. 1910.

Janus llllMAN, J12, H. C. JOHNSON. 

